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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.
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Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
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Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!
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The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.
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Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
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Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies.
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What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!
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Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!
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Extremes in nature equal ends produce In man they join to some mysterious use.
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Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.
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Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.
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All other goods by fortune's hand are given, A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?
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Genius creates, and taste preserves.
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Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?
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The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.
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What bosom beast not in his country's cause?
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